Bell Ringer

• Appositives
  • an identifying tool
  • may begin with a, an, or the.
  • Appositive Models
    • Without appositives:
      • I came to philosophy as a last resort.
      • Ned came in and let the boarders out.
      • The dictionary had a picture of an aardvark.
    • With appositives:
      • A professional football player, print and television journalist, academic English teacher and world-travler,I came to philosophy as a last resort. (John McMurtry, "Kill 'Em! Crush 'Em! Eat 'Em Raw!")
      • Ned, the lanky high-school student who cleaned the cages and fed the animals morning and evening, came in and let the boarders out. (Sue Miller, While I Was Gone)
      • The dictionary had a picture of an aardvark, a long-tailed, long eared, burrowing African mammal living off termites caught by sticking out its tongue as an anteater does for ants. (Malcolm X and Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X)

More Procedures and Protocol

• Binder Tabs
  • Vocabulary
  • Reading Passages
  • Graded Work
  • Work to Turn In
  • Misc.
• Set up Student Blogs
  • Steps to create a blog.
  • Teacher Model: Respond to this prompt on our class blog.
  • Student respond to prompt.
• Complete and hand in Student Info Cards.

• The Hook: Watch book trailer.
• Other Visual Resources: NPR’s Top 100 Books and sites for book talks, such as this one at Scholastic.
• Pair/Share a read selection.
• Assignment: Turn in list with 50-Word Commentary.